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LETTER: Artist’s rendering of retail at new Vegas baseball stadium looks tacky

This is a rendering showing a proposed mixed-use project that will surround the Athletics’ Ma ...
This is a rendering showing a proposed mixed-use project that will surround the Athletics’ Major League Baseball ballpark, including a mix of hotel, casino, retail, dining and entertainment. (Bally's Las Vegas)
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Does anyone else think that the crush of businesses being proposed in front of the new baseball stadium look like a monstrous strip mall (Wednesday Review-Journal)? I was pleased with the design of the stadium and its ode to the Sydney Opera House. The artist’s rendering, however, now makes it look like urban sprawl.

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